Walking to Martha's Vineyard Poems

Name: Walking to Martha's Vineyard Poems
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ISBN: 9780375710018

ISBN-10: 0375710019

ISBN-13: 9780375710018

Edition: 2003

Authors: Franz Wright

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In this radiant new collection, Franz Wright shares his regard for life in all its forms and his belief in the promise of blessing and renewal. As he watches the “Resurrection of the little apple tree outside / my window,” he shakes off his fear of mortality, concluding “what death . . . There is only / mine / or yours,– / but the world / will be filled with the living.” In prayerlike poems he invokes the one “who spoke the world / into being” and celebrates a dazzling universe–snowflakes descending at nightfall, the intense yellow petals of the September sunflower, the planet adrift in a blizzard of stars, the simple mystery of loving other people. As Wright overcomes a natural tendency…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/5/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 5.81" wide x 8.23" long x 0.29" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English

Franz Wright lives in Waltham, Massachusetts.